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'Sandbar Mitchell' Restoration Takes New Approach

Restoration of a World War II bomber salvaged from a Tanana River sandbar will benefit from a similar relic in Nome. Some of the parts needed to restore the plane known as “Sandbar Mitchell” will be come from another B-25 that crashed in Nome over 70 years ago.

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Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.